I use autocorrect everyday, whether it be on my phone, email, or other electronic device. I have become so accustomed to autocorrect, I don’t know what I would do without it.

A specific experience I have had recently with autocorrect is with Word. On my laptop keyboard, the letter ‘E’ had fallen out, and typing became really inconvenient and difficult. Even though I could still use the letter, more often than not I wouldn’t click the spot where the key used to be hard enough. Writing blog posts took way more time, but the autocorrect in Word made my life so much easier.

Even though Word wasn’t able to autocorrect every time I left out the letter ‘e’, it still corrected many of  my mistakes. Autocorrect allowed me to postpone fixing my keyboard, because I knew Word would catch the majority of my mistakes. It wasn’t until last night, when taking notes from a textbook, I became fed up enough to finally solve the problem.

A constraint that comes with autocorrect is sometimes it will repeatedly change a word to something else, and you have to go back and re-type that word over and over again. Last night, Word did not recognize all of the words I had typed, and would autocorrect them to something else. I would have to go back a fix the word to what it was supposed to be before Word changed it.

Overall, despite shortcomings, autocorrect has made my life easier and helps me get my work done faster. It allows me to communicate better with others, whether it be through texting or email.